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Bios / Re: herschel walker is a freak of nature - 47 years old
« on: February 25, 2010, 12:38:47 pm »
Roids roids roids roids. Roids roids roids roids roids. Roiiiids. Roiiiiids. Roiiiiids.

That makes more sense if you think of a church bell chiming out the time.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: no bounce, need bounce
« on: February 24, 2010, 09:29:51 pm »
Warm up
usual
SVJs

Work
jump squat 2x3x95
squat 5x240 5x260 7x270 (felt meh)
superset x3
  • DL warm up
  • pushups x20
DL 5x305 (felt great)
7 day vertical jump cure exercises instead of core circuit

Cool down
stretch

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: no bounce, need bounce
« on: February 23, 2010, 09:24:09 pm »
Ankle held up okay during frisbee but I was ssllloooowwwwwwwwwww. And my team got housed. But that's okay. Gonna ice it a little now and back in the gym tomorrow. Thank god. The lack of exercise was driving me nuts.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: no bounce, need bounce
« on: February 22, 2010, 09:30:01 pm »
So I basically got no sleep this past weekend and my ankle still isn't 100%. If either one of those things weren't true, I would work out today. Instead, I'm going to bed. Gonna get some sleep and then try to test the ankle out tomorrow night.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: no bounce, need bounce
« on: February 18, 2010, 03:04:58 pm »
wtf how did that happen??????????

god damn.. ive done dumb shit like that, that's the worst.

i completely dislocated my little toe once doing some training barefoot, thing went sideways.



After nearly two years of getting better, with only one minor setback, which I wasn't so mad about because it happened during the last ultimate tournament of last year, I just stepped off a curb without looking, my foot landed on a little hump of pack ice (snow that's been beaten down so much that now it's ice, for you warm-weather types) and just snapped to the outside. It's not that serious but I'm definitely not playing ultimate tonight. Which reminds me, I should email my captain.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: no bounce, need bounce
« on: February 17, 2010, 08:51:59 pm »
I turned my motherfucking ankle on the motherfucking pack ice. On the way to the gym. It's not that bad but enough that it tweaks when I walk and now I'm doing hot/cold and I got an ace bandage, too.

Workout today (such as it was):

foam roll legs (thoroughly)
spin on bike x10mins
stretch a bunch

Was too pissed to do core or anything.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: February 17, 2010, 04:13:14 pm »
Haha I would kill for 50 degree weather right now. Perfect for running.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: no bounce, need bounce
« on: February 17, 2010, 10:43:09 am »
Normal jumps will continue to be done after warm-ups and before anything else. Probably start to mix some SVJs in with the RVJs. I'm not going to plan for two days' rest because it'll happen against my will given how hectic my life is at the moment  ;D The SVJ-mimicking jump squats (as opposed to slow eccentric) were plenty comfortable the other day, so I'm just going to go that route. Thanks again for the feedback.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: no bounce, need bounce
« on: February 16, 2010, 03:12:16 pm »
Something I thought about right after the last DL workout: Rippetoe and Kilgore say that you shouldn't really do more than one heavy set of 5 DLs at a time to protect your lower back. My lower back is telling me that I should agree with that, plus it feels weird to only be squatting once a week and squatting seems more important, anyway. Add to that the fact that indoor ultimate is starting up on Thursday and will involve 1-2 hours of ultimate twice a week through mid-March, and I'm thinking about cutting DLs back a bit. Main lifts would still be on 5/3/1. Maybe something like this (unilateral lower leg would be SLRDLs, step-ups, or BSS):

workout A:
squat + assistance (weighted jumps before squats, upper body pull, unilateral lower leg)

workout B:
bench + depth jumps

workout C:
squat (trying to get more on final set than workout A) + assistance (weighted jumps before squats, heavy DL x1 set of 5, upper body pull)

workout D:
OHP + assistance (paused box jumps, reactive jumps [e.g. single-leg bounds], sprints once it starts getting nice)

seem workable? Also, for jump squats, which way is right? Slow eccentric and then explode up, or just jumps with a weight on your back (quick descent into quarter squat, explode up)?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: no bounce, need bounce
« on: February 16, 2010, 01:10:52 am »
Yeah, the snow was really cool when it happened cause I had like 3.5 days off work and, well, I like snow. But now there are five-foot-high mounds of dirty plowed snow on every street corner and once it starts to melt... yikes. Anyway, okay workout today. Hamstrings have been a bit sore from the SLRDLs.

Warm up
spin on bike x10 mins
usual (jump rope felt smoother than usual for some reason)

Work
bench 3x170, 3x180, 5x190
depth jump 4x3, lots of rest

Cool down
stretch

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: no bounce, need bounce
« on: February 13, 2010, 06:42:37 pm »
Sucks for the Olympics that all the snow in the Western Hemisphere fell on the mid-Atlantic. There is still so much freaking snow here. I went out to visit my parents in Maryland last night and there's at least 3 feet there. More like 2.5 down here.

Warm up
usual
RVJs ~I have no fucking idea"

Work
jump squats 2x3x105 (did the first set with a slow descent into a half squat and then an explosion up; the second set like jumps, just with a bar on my back)
squat 3x240, 3x260, 8x270
superset x3
  • SLRDL x16x80
  • pull ups x7
core circuit

Cool down
stretch
spin on stationary bike x5"

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: February 13, 2010, 04:02:13 pm »
only problem is my left arm is tight, brachioradialis, can't straighten it after w/o

http://www.triggerpointbook.com/

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: no bounce, need bounce
« on: February 12, 2010, 12:04:29 pm »
Workout last night:

Warm up
usual
RVJs x6 or 7, started kind of shitty but got up to ~32"! One full knuckle of my ring finger on the rim. Still pretty sad but I'm getting there. Gotta keep these up, they help (yes, yes, no shit, Sherlock). Did some later on after the main workout, but they weren't as good. Also, while I was shooting around a little kid (maybe 10 years old?) challenged me to one-on-one. I might be a poor basketball player, but I think I could have taken him, haha. Plus he wasn't all that great  ;D

Work
OHP 3x105, 3x110, 5x115
superset x3
  • paused box jumps w/5# DB in each hand x5
  • inverted rows x10
core circuit

Cool down

stretch
shoot some hoops, started to get a groove, felt nice

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a few questions, anyone who knows sth, pls feel free to enlighten me..

1) what purpose does the bench serve, at least for a baller, and as an exercise in itself?
cos when i do it, i generally don't feel my pecs being stressed all that much, instead when i am close to failure, i feel it in my arms and chest. i guess my point is, does it really work the chest all that much?

Upper body strength is essential to most athletes. Trying to get a shot up in the lane or while getting fouled? Upper body strength. The bench is one of the most basic exercises for doing that. Hard to give advice without watching you, but one thing to try is to treat it like a flye. That is, when you're pushing the bar up, think about bringing your hands together across your chest, like you would with a dumbbell flye, without actually moving them. Combine bench with some weighted pullups and you've got yourself a nice upper-body routine.

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2) RDL--- straight back ala squats, or slight round?
i think im doing it wrong, i cant really feel my hips extending...
i set my weight on my heels, try to make my hips go as far back as possible, but on the way up, i suppose i dun feel it all that much.
abit, but not as much as i reckon it should, given that i think RDLs are supposed to be a hip driven exercise...

Not sure what you mean by "slight round."

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